Is the 'pressure gradient' normalized by 'rho' already? I've seem some threads about it and got confused. Basically I need to use it to calculate the wall shear velocity, so it's very important to understand that.

2. Although in the 'controlDict' file, we have fieldAverage, but It seems that it is just a time average in the UMean, Pmean files, so I have 2 questions on that: a.> iis it averaged from t=0? even if it's not steady state? b>. Is there any existing utility that I can use to take a surface average of U and P? BTW, I may need to take surface average at several planes, so maybe sampling is not such a good choice for me. Any suggestions?

Is the 'pressure gradient' normalized by 'rho' already? I've seem some threads about it and got confused. Basically I need to use it to calculate the wall shear velocity, so it's very important to understand that.

Yes, I think all the incompressible solvers assume rho = 1. That is why the density does not appear in the momentum equation and you have to specify kinematic viscosity instead of dynamic viscosity.

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Originally Posted by cheng1988sjtu

2. Although in the 'controlDict' file, we have fieldAverage, but It seems that it is just a time average in the UMean, Pmean files, so I have 2 questions on that: a.> iis it averaged from t=0? even if it's not steady state? b>. Is there any existing utility that I can use to take a surface average of U and P? BTW, I may need to take surface average at several planes, so maybe sampling is not such a good choice for me. Any suggestions?

Thank you, foamers!

Zhen

a) Yes, do not expect the code to identify the steady state for you
b) If you play around with the 'sample' utility you can do quite a lot. See your source code for an example of the sampleDict file.